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• You have perhaps heard the story of the four students-- British, French, American, Canadian-- who were asked to write an essay on elephants.
  The British student entitled his essay "Elephants and the Empire....
• If all men were brothers, would you want one to marry your sister?
  -- the title of a Theodore Sturgeon short story....
• One day a student came to Moon and said, "I understand how to make a better garbage collector.
  We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons....
• Q: "If I were to ask you a *very* simple question, do you think you might be able to answer it without it troubling your intellect too much?
  Ready? Here goes. Would I permit you to lock me away if I still had all my powers?...
• My grandfather invented Cliff's Notes. It all started back in 1912.
  .. well, to make a long story short... -- Stephen Wrigh...
• How long is a short story?
• Because This Is A Story About Sex.
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  We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons....
• canonical adj. [very common; historically, `according to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of something.
  This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in mathematics....